Meet the Team
Arthur Redditt
Director
After graduating with an honours degree in Engineering from Canterbury University, Arthur moved to Australia to work initially at the Ford Motor Company and latterly at Toyota Australia, where he was responsible for new model planning and test and development programmes.
On his return to New Zealand, Arthur ran one of New Zealand's major tour companies, prior to taking up the role of group IT manager with the parent company, Tourism Holdings. The position involved preparing IT strategies for the group businesses - including internet solutions - and, as such, he has an expert understanding of the use of technology in the tourism industry.
Arthur now focuses on providing sales and product support to digitise clients and managing this growing business.
Michelle Holland
Studio Manager
Michelle has been working in the web industry since 2004, having held account and post-production management roles prior to joining Digitise in 2007.
Michelle’s mission, is to ensure the smooth running of the studio and the successful delivery of each digitise project.
Brigid McClelland
Sales and Account Management
Meet Brigid, who brings over 15 years of media sales experience to digitise.
She has a wealth of experience behind and in front of the camera and has enjoyed developing online media, another dimension for digitise.
Brigid has a passion for acting, presenting, singing and enjoys the challenge of heading the sales team and developing strong relationships with our many valued clients.
Whiona McKay
Sales Executive
Whiona has an extensive Sales background in I.T. and Finance.Originally from Blenheim, Whiona is the youngest of nine children, and has lived in Christchurch for many years.
When she’s not enjoying time with her son Cairo, Whiona balances her love of good wine with her love of the gym.
Vibrant, outgoing and self-confessed perfectionist, Whiona is a valuable addition to the Digitise team.
Sharon Dwyer
Administration Manager
Meet Digitise's admin angel! With her bubbly personality Sharon’s been ‘heaven sent’ to handle our accounts and administration duties. Sharon now takes care of all of the digitise accounts as well as providing admin support to the sales and production teams.
Not only is she a ray of sunshine around the office, but she’s a highly efficient admin professional who’s super organised and very good at what she does. As an added bonus Sharon has previous website administration experience, so she knows the web lingo!
Outside of work, Sharon is kept busy with her three teens, likes to potter in her garden and takes long walks around Sumner.
Jeremy Straub
Technical Manager
Jeremy joins us most recently from Auckland, and prior to that he was working in San Francisco. Jeremy was head hunted to Auckland for a short duration project and thought he 'd return back to the US on its completion.
However, he 's decided to stay for a while (perhaps it was the temptation of a southern hemisphere summer on the horizon) and we were lucky enough to tempt him south with a job role of web developer. He now works on our dynamic web applications “ basically anything that 's a little "nifty" (his own words).
He also keeps himself busy with his distance studies, with a law degree partly completed and an eye to sitting the Californian bar exam some day. Jeremy is also a keen pilot and has his provisional pilot's license.
Sonia Chen
Web Designer and Developer
Sonia loves the challenges of combining design with technology and getting to ‘make things’.
When she’s not developing flash applications or re-designing websites, she likes to potter in her garden, getting a lot of personal satisfaction out of cooking with her own veggies. She also finds time to write to ‘her kids’ Musa and Koga who she sponsors through World Vision. She keeps fit by cycling everywhere and is rarely separated from her beloved bicycle. She’s particularly proud of cycling all the way up the Port Hills and over to Sumner Beach.
Sonia, with dance partner Paul is the 2008 South Island Salsa Champ in the "Dancing under 1 year category". We think she's a champ both on and off the dance floor!
Michael Wood
Web / Graphic Designer
Michael had aspirations of becoming an architect, but after taking a graphic design course at High School he was hooked. He followed this up with courses at the Design & Arts College in Christchurch, graduating with a diploma in Graphic Design.
During his time at digitise, Michael has worked on a number of successful projects including design work for Pacific AG, Hurrels Apparel, Hawk Football and Canterbury Trap. Michael was also responsible for the launch of digitise’s successful EcoMail product.
In addition to design, his other two passions are cars and music (he hopes to produce his own drum and bass music and dj in local clubs someday). He also spends a good part of his time online keeping up with the latest technology.
Sam Kilpatrick
Web Designer
After receiving a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication, Sam was head-hunted by an internationally recognised foreign currency services provider and began his design career as an in-house graphic designer. Two years later he went on a working O.E. and was employed by a high profile advertising company in Australia before returning to New Zealand to work as a Brand Manager for a small Christchurch based design agency. Recently Sam made the "challenging yet rewarding" move from print to web design with his new role as a web designer here at Digitise.Outside of his work Sam loves the outdoors, often spending his time off hunting, fishing and shooting, or scouting the aisles of Bunnings for his many DIY projects.
Jian Gu
Web Developer
While studying at Cantrbury University for a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters of Science Jian also worked part time as a Flash developer in a local training service company. After moving to Austria for an internship at a college where he worked programming cell phone applications in both Java (J2ME) and C#. Jian has joined Digitise to work on core development projects in .NET applications on a contract basis.Outside of his work Jian likes to play basketball, badminton and computer games.
Shyamli Gala
Search Engine Specialist
Shyamli is our in-house Search Engine Specialist. Originally from Mumbai, she moved to New Zealand to study at the CPIT and graduated with a Diploma in E-Commerce. Prior to this she completed a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physics and Computer Science.
She’s a keen cook and gardener and for fun likes to play ten pin bowling, squash and badminton.
Andrew Drake
Web Developer
Andrew began working as a web programming contractor while completing his BSc in Computer Science at Auckland University. In 2002 he moved to London for what ended up being a 6 year OE working at the BEAM.TV – a web-based company specialising in global media distribution for the advertising company.
While at Beam, Andrew worked with brands such as Unilever, Nike, Universal Music and Nokia. He was involved with projects implementing a wide range of technologies including IPTV, mobile internet and multi-screen digital signage solutions.
In 2007 Andrew married Lydia, a kiwi girl who he had met in London. They moved back to NZ in 2008, settling in Christchurch. Andrew spent a few months contracting for UK and NZ contracts before being picked up by Digitise in 2009. In his spare time, Andrew enjoys photography, spending time outdoors and helping Lydia lead a Sunday School class at a local church.
